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… in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on the Cape Flats, in Wetton, Wynberg and, … on some personal photographic projects. The production of black and white photographic images interested him. It was … early 1987, Stevens and Appolis invited him to a meeting of some South African photographers. This meeting was to …

… a complaint against a police officer for the battering of an innocent Coloured man. Her family was forced to move … this time at gunpoint for letting black people make use of her water tap during their march to Cape Town. Eventually … 1973 she received a letter from the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr. Norman Kirk, acknowledging that he …

… Community organisations and the resistance press used many of Berman’s photographs. Her photographs were included in the … South Africa: The Cordoned Heart (1986), (which was a part of the exhibition), depicts the poverty faced by the Coloured … and Black communities in and around the Western Cape town of George. Beyond merely depicting the poverty of these …

… for the Rand Daily Mail , Stein took on the editorship of Drum magazine , where he spent three years working with a staff of black writers, who would later become well known for their accounts of life under apartheid. In the late 1950s, Stein left South …

… to pursue a career as a visual artist as another way of contributing to South African culture. He obtained a bachelor’s degree of technology in fine arts in 2002 and continued living in … exhibition in 2006. Hlobo’s works reference many aspects of his Xhosa heritage and incorporate concepts of gender, …

… Wells, England c.1871. He trained at the Brighton School of Art and became proficient in watercolour, the most English of painting mediums. He first came to SA as an opera singer, … in both South West Africa/ Namibia and the main theatre of the War in Europe. Prior to his departure to war in 1917, …

… school in Middelburg, Mpumalanga. On completion of his training, he moved to Pretoria where he worked as a … healing, rebirth and continuity and not the transience of existence. Moreover, his use of chiaroscuro intensifies the symbolism of these pieces. The …

… from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work in Johannesburg from 1957 to 1959.After four … years later he encountered the emerging leadership of South Africa Students' Organisation (SASO),to whom he … in Michigan.Khoapa returned  to SA and became registrar of the University of Fort Hare in 1991,then served as the …

… technician while studying photography under the tutelage of photographer, Michael Barry.  Perez continued to work as a … South Africa. He contributed to the Staffrider exhibition of 1985.  His photographs included in South Africa: The Cordoned Heart focus on the “Coloured population” of Beaufort West. These are accompanied by text from the 1986 …

… his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. At the time he was a British citizen with dual British-South African nationality as a result of his parents living in South Africa for 30 years. During 1974/75 he spent time in the UK and was a member of the Transport General Workers’ Union while working as a …

… was born in Graaff-Reinet district. He was a member of Voortrekker leader Jacob de Clercq's group who arrived at … to Comdt.-Gen. Andries Pretorius, he kept the Journal of the 'Winkommando', a document which is now of historical importance. His most important legacy is the …

… at the Cape from 1820-21. He named the burgeoning port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of his wife. He committed suicide at Southampton in 1841. He …

… 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the daughter of English immigrants. Neither of Paton’s parents was highly educated, but his father was … his sons. This led to Paton’s open opposition to any form of authoritarianism and physical punishment. His father also …

… Chief Dalindyebo, of the Tembus, was born in 1865. At the age of 14 years he was admitted into St. John's, where he … recalled him to study the aspirations, habits and customs of his people. In 1884 when Dalindyebo was 19 years of age …

… in Kliptown. Later he lived in Lenasia for a period of about two years.  Wadee moved to Nelspruit in the late … United Democratic Front (UDF) and opposed the co-option of the Indians and Coloureds and their separation from the … with his comrade, Yusuf Vawda, he organised boycotts of elections and state-sponsored events. He notes that their …

… 1973. In September 1973 Nala was elected to the executive of National Union of Textile Workers (NUTW). However, as a result she was fired … Afritex three months later. Nala was elected secretary of the Natal Benefit Fund in 1975. In March 1976 Nala was … M. and Ulrich, N., 2006. “White Activists and the Revival of the Workers’ Movement” in The Road to Democracy in South …

… and escort to two Mexican boys in France. At the outbreak of the World War 1, Tolkien enlisted as a second lieutenant … academic at Oxford where upon being accepted he became one of the founder members of a group known as the "The Inklings". In 1945 Tolkien …

… (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare, where he acquired a teaching diploma and a … way they depicted “”¦ the harsh and depressing conditions of African life in the Johannesburg townships.” Themba’s Sophiatown dwelling, known as “The House of Truth”, received many visitors looking for “intelligent …

… He was subsequently employed by the Princesse-Tooneel of Cor Ruys in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and acted in films … ventures with his own company were a success in terms of artistic excellence but they made no money. He joined … Paul de Groot company. He left South Africa in 1935. Most of his successes, which include Huistoe (Heimat by H. …

… the 1980s, Lombard worked in the audio-visual department of a large construction company in Cape Town. His love for … for national and international newspapers and was a member of the Vakalisa Art Association (isiXhosa for enlighten), an … in Southern Africa, including at the University of Zimbabwe in 1983 and the Staffrider exhibitions of 1984 …

… Percy Fitzpatrick best known for his book, Jock of the Bushveld and other children's books. Fitzpatrick was one of the leaders of Johannesburg's Reform Committee which conspired to …

… June 1976 created the opportunity for the ANC to break out of its 13-year strategic impasse. From exile, it was able to … in April 1974. At this crucial moment, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was riven by serious leadership disputes. The … - to black consciousness, the ANC or the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC). They were ‘up for grabs’, according to Slovo. …

… Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the Great Trek leader Andries Pretorius, and the first president of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria. He died on the 19th of May , 1901, in …

… is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban town on the eastern side of Pretoria. In 1996 he graduated from the University of Pretoria with a BA (Visual Art) in 1996. Currently he …

… privately with Cecil Skotnes and became a decorator of lamp bases at the Artlite factory. In 1973 he became a … Macmillan and Henry Moore. He attended the London School of Art for two months. In 1980 he visited New Zealand and the … times. In 1981 he again visited the USA at the invitation of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 1982 Nkosi built …

… Damelin College in Johannesburg and later the University of Natal. Clive started playing cricket for the Transvaal … Nuffield XI in 1967 and eventually showed glimpses of a fine all–rounder, which earned him promotion to the … won the double championship in 1981. Rice was also captain of Transvaal for the 1981/82 season, under his leadership …

… Cato was born in 25 February 1814, London. The eldest son of a Huguenot family called Caton who settled in London. His … and trade at Port Natal, where a small European community of hunters and traders had settled. The following year he and … Natal as J. Owen Smith's representative for the purpose of establishing trading with the emigrant Boers. The same …

… training under Lippy Lipschitz at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT in the 1950s. She was one of the few professional sculptors, aside from Ivan … with SASA. Records indicate that she first showed a bust of Norman Kaye with the Society in 1942. She showed …

… 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the first born son of Pasquale “Grovaa” Mattera, and the eldest brother of Don Mattera, also of Sophiatown. Bhengu then moved to …

… studied Graphic Fine Art at the Johannesburg College of Art, after which she joined The Star newspaper in 1979, … initiatives. In l999/2000, while working for the Dept of Health's Beyond Awareness Campaign, she compiled a series of portraits of 31 South Africans who had publicly disclosed …